How to Use cipher in a Sentence
cipher
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The venue that was completed in late 2019 is a cipher to Ganong and the rest of the Olympians.
—Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
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The pages on the left (verso) were written in a cipher.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
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On the other hand, them being ciphers is kind of the point.
—Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 18 June 2018
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But while Josh and Saul are singing ciphers, Owen and Manus are complex and whole.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2023
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Block ciphers go back to the 1850s and are the core of most modern encryption schemes.
—George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
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On the page, its words can seem as blunt and cipher-like as notes on a musical staff.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
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Back at the Anomaly Stone, Gabriel and his cipher crew are working.
—Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 2 July 2020
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But for many artists, the queen was more cipher than an enemy.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
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Most frustrating of all is the show’s saintly cipher of a hero.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 June 2021
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The show shifts from standing circle to ascending rows of chairs, then back to the cipher.
—Dasun Imanuel, Essence, 28 Aug. 2019
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And there was this woman at its center who was always a bit of a cipher, hard to pin down.
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
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Mike serves as a kind of cipher for this coming-of-age realization in the show.
—Leah Beckmann, The Cut, 21 June 2018
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Jules is a cipher, which is kind of the point of the series, but makes her a boring and at times annoying anchor for the show.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
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Evan, who had been a social cipher at school, is noticed.
—Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
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And Elvis himself remains a cipher, a symbol, more myth than flesh and blood.
—New York Times, 23 June 2022
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This is the second time a Zodiac cipher has been cracked.
—Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2020
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The landlady remains a cipher, and yet a faint aspect of loss haloes her.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
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For one thing, the pair told her, the final passage uses a layered cipher.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
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Just over a decade later, Saif al-Islam is now something of a cipher for Libyans.
—Reuters, CNN, 14 Nov. 2021
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Unless perhaps the point was to expose the actor as cipher.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
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And the show has been (lightly) criticized for turning Budd in to something of a cipher.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
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Now and then someone at the edge of the cipher would cut in, and there would be a trio for a minute, weaving like birds finding the right formation to slice the sky.
—New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
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Don't ask me, but some online sleuths have already managed to figure out the cipher in the image.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2022
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Some of the plans these cipher administrators came up with are the stuff of nightmares.
—Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 13 June 2019
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Ford’s son Jack received gold cufflinks showing the crown along with her cipher.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
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The cipher was sent two weeks after a person claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into the show.
—Leah Asmelash and Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
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The cipher is a lovely hybrid of the letters M and H written in blue ink with a crown hovering above.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 July 2018
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All of the chairs to be used in the ceremony have been updated with King Charles and Queen Camilla's ciphers.
—Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 30 Apr. 2023
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His rap name is in part a reference to roaming through the New York streets looking for ciphers and battles to hone his skills.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
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For instance, a team might embed a cipher in the pixels of its scoreboard to tell a batter what pitch to expect.
—Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
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